So, the first trailer for AoE2: DE was just released and the game is coming out as early as this fall. More news will hopefully come out of the on-going E3.

So far DE is looking like a new HD expansion with a lot of graphical updates. My main concern personally is with backwards compatibility, if older scenarios and campaigns can be expected to be playable in DE, or if they decide to wipe the slate clean.

Given that the voiceover man was talking about "preserving the core aspects of gameplay", I suspect that what he means is that you can queue different things up and they will do them one after the other.

I didn't know this was a thing until now. My first thought, of course, was "Why?" but after seeing some of the work in the trailers, I'm cautiously optimistic.

Quoted from rewaider:

The "new triggers" part got me interested (not to mention that the gameplay itself looks solid).

Quoted from Basse:

That actually has me more interested than all of the new graphics, civs and gameplay updated combined!

Yeah, same here. For some reason, adding new civs and stuff seems sort of basic. Not that it's a bad idea, it's just a simple idea. It's the kind of thing that an executive would do.

"I've never played an RTS and I've never even heard of Age of Empires before, but it looks like there are a bunch of civilizations you can play as. Add more of those. The players will like that, right?"

Whereas "more triggers" implies that the scenario editing experience is being improved. That's good for the longevity of the game, and the fact that they're putting dev time into it is a good sign that they're genuine about improving the game instead of purely cashing in on nostalgia.

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I've asked Cysion about the possibility of a "map editor" week for us beta participants so we can try it out, and he essentially said it's possible but not guaranteed.